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''RELEASE: 10-024''
''NOW A STATIONARY RESEARCH PLATFORM, NASA'S MARS ROVER SPIRIT STARTS A NEW CHAPTER IN RED PLANET SCIENTIFIC STUDIES''
WASHINGTON -- After six years of unprecedented ... wonderful -- it's so different from the other knowledge we've gained from Spirit, said Squyres. Tools on Spirit's robotic arm can study variations in the composition of nearby soil, which ...
... unknown territory. Because most of the rover's heaters were not being powered this winter, Spirit is likely experiencing its coldest internal temperatures yet -- minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit. During three previous Martian winters, Spirit communicated about once or twice a week with Earth and used its heaters to stay ...
... . Confirming this mineral clue took four years of analysis by several scientists. An outcrop that Spirit examined in late 2005 revealed high concentrations of carbonate, which originates in wet, near-neutral ... . Morris suspected iron-bearing carbonate at Comanche years ago from inspection of the rock with Spirit's Moessbauer Spectrometer, which provides information about iron-containing minerals. Confirming evidence from other instruments ...
... our growth for other reasons.) And of course, we were all aware that the idealistic spirit of going out to settle the frontier had been a key factor in establishing and continuing the spirit of freedom. Whatever the imperfections of those old days, and the challenges before us now ... Teilhard de Chardin, a Catholic priest, could see clearly how this fits the true inner spirit of true Christianity.
There is another, more grim side of this. Some people imagine that ...
... 8 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. Opportunity's twin rover, Spirit, began working on Mars three weeks before Opportunity. However, Spirit has been out of communication since March 22. If it awakens ... declined during autumn on Mars' southern hemisphere. Unfortunately, mobility problems prevented rover operators from positioning Spirit with a favorable tilt toward the north, as during the first three winters it experienced ...
... exploration), the Challenger and Columbia syndrome are not taking a toll deep inside our human spirit and courage, resulting in the overly conservative constellation program plan for exploring into the unknown ... safety risks indeed are not necessarily the technological ones, but something lying inside the human spirit and willingness for continued exploration of the ''unknown''. In the history of civilization, human beings ...
... journeys made on the various Apollo LRV mission
9.5.2.3 Mars Rovers – Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity
The first successful Mars rover was ''Sojourner'' , shown in Figure 9.14 ... June 10, 2003, and MER-B, ''Opportunity'' , on July 7, 2003 (see Figure 9.15). Spirit landed in Gusev crater on January 4, 2004; Opportunity landed in the Meridiani Planum on the opposite side of Mars from Spirit, on January 25, 2004. The hardware design concept of these twin rovers follows that of ...
... it had abruptly terminated communications with NASA on 21 January 2004. On 23 January 2004, Spirit had reestablished contact with NASA, but, according to major newspapers, NASA scientists doubted that the robotic spacecraft would regain full functionality. (Mark Carreau, “NASA Declares Spirit Rover Broken,” Houston Chronicle, 24 January 2004; NASA, “ Spirit Condition Upgraded as Twin Rover Nears Mars,” news release 04-036 ...
... of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, added that the unexpected discovery was a reminder that Spirit and Opportunity were still conducting cutting-edge exploration more than three years into their extended mission.
''NASA, “Mars Rover Spirit Unearths Surprise Evidence of Wetter Past,” news release 07-118, 21 May 2007, http://www ...
... . Launched in 2006, MRO observes Mars' surface, subsurface and atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Opportunity and Spirit completed their three-month prime missions on Mars in April 2004, but continued to collect data. NASA ended operations for Spirit this year to focus only on Opportunity activities. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ...
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